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2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)

Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_EPI_2010

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Summary

Abstract: The 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 163 countries on environmental performance based on twenty-five indicators grouped within ten core policy categories addressing environmental health, air quality, water resource management, biodiversity and habitat, forestry, fisheries, agriculture, and climate change in the context of two broad objectives: environmental health and ecosystem ...

Purpose: To provide quantitative metrics for evaluating a country's environmental performance in different policy categories relative clearly defined targets.

Related URL

Link: GET DATA

Description: Data download page.

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 90.0

S: -55.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)/Yale University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University, World Economic Forum (WEF), and Joint Research Centre (JRC)/European Commission

Dataset Title: 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)

Dataset Release Date: 2010

Dataset Release Place: New Haven, CT

Dataset Publisher: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)/Yale University

Version: 2010.00

Data Presentation Form: document, tabular

Online Resource: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/epi-environmental-perform...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1994-01-01

Stop Date: 2009-12-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > AFRICA > NORTHERN AFRICA > ALGERIA

CONTINENT > AFRICA > CENTRAL AFRICA > ANGOLA

Science Keywords

CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS

LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION

SOLID EARTH > GRAVITY/GRAVITATIONAL FIELD > GRAVITY

SOLID EARTH > GEOMAGNETISM > MAGNETIC FIELD > MAGNETIC ANOMALIES

ISO Topic Category

ELEVATION

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

INLAND WATERS

Project

NSF/OPP > Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation

SOAR-TAM > Support Office for Aerogeophysical Research Transantarctic Mountains Project

Access Constraints None

Ancillary Keywords

LDEO

ANTARCTICA

NSF

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

Data Center

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Data Center URL: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/
Dataset ID: TAM_WLK_Ey_Y31a

Data Center Personnel
Name: ROBERT A. ARKO Email: info at usap-data.org Contact Address: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 61 Route 9W City: Palisades Province or State: NY Postal Code: 10964 Country: USA